So I've been preparing more stuff for NESmaker with NESst. I decided my first real project in NESmaker will be remaking my first PC game "The Legend of Takemaru", though I'll be renaming it to "The Tower of Turmoil" as I think that's a better name for it.

I've just finished up some sprites for the player character Takemaru. I'm going for a much different style than the original game. (Please excuse the white border that's around some of the pictures, I couldn't get a perfect crop.)

I managed to use more than 3 colors per metasprite by using an additional layered sprite for the face, making a total of 6 colors for the character. The sword slash is going to be placed in front of every "Attacking" frame of animation.

Here's what the layered sprite looks like detached from the body. It's just placed over the body in a way that looks seamless. Now, I don't exactly know how I can actually pull this off in NESmaker, but I'll definitely experiment with this further when the platformer module is released.

I'm rather excited about this game as I really enjoyed the PC version and have been eager to see it fleshed out into more of an action playformer in the vein of megaman or ninja gaiden, only not nearly as punishingly brutal.

I'm rather excited about this game as I really enjoyed the PC version and have been eager to see it fleshed out into more of an action playformer in the vein of megaman or ninja gaiden, only not nearly as punishingly brutal.

Glad to hear you're excited! And I'm happy to hear you liked the original too! Although I can agree it wasn't very well designed, mostly because of my inexperience as a programmer back then. A lot of things didn't work as originally intended.

A more action platformer like Ninja Gaiden/Megaman is definitely what I'm working towards.

I've still haven't been able to fix that music bug where one of the Pulse channels drops out when advancing to another screen with the same music, so I stop on the first screen for a while so you can hear what the song's SUPPOSED to sound like.

I haven't been able to add in all the features I wanted yet. You can't attack enemies, the HUD's unfinished, and I haven't been able to implement a layered sprite for the player's face yet, so his head is transparent for now.

I'd appreciate any feedback or any tips and tricks on coding this stuff!